Secularism or Democracy?

Preface

Introduction Contested religious pluralism

PART I      MODERN STATES AND RELGIONS, SOCIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS: SETTING THE STAGE

1    Secularisation and separation? Institutional diversity of religious governance

PART II     RECONCEPTUALISING PRINCIPLES AND MAKING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FIT FOR THE TASK OF ACCOMMODATING RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

2        Contextualising morality: moral minimalism, relational neutrality, fairness as even-handedness

3        Priority for liberal democracy or secularism? Why I am not a secularist

PART III    DILEMMAS AND LIMITS OF ACCOMMODATION, PRINCIPLES AND CASES: APPLYING MORAL MINIMALISM

4        Religious freedoms and other human rights, moral conundrums and hard cases

5        Relational neutrality and even-handedness towards religions: softer cases and symbolic issues

PART IV   INSTITUTIONAL MODELS OF DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS GOVERNANCE: ASSOCIATIVE DEMOCRACY

6        Moderately agonistic democracy, democratic institutional pluralism, associative democracy and the incorporation of minorities

7        Normative models of religious governance: associative democracy, a moral defence

8        Dilemmas of institutionalisation; associative democracy, church autonomy and equal treatment of religions

9        A realistic defence of associative democracy

10    Associative democracy and education

Conclusions

Notes

References

Index of names

Index of subjects